A lot of people don't understand this alliance between Corporate America and the Socialist Bloc embodied by BLM, Justice Democrats, AntiFa, and the rest. It seems like a paradoxical arrangement that will inevitably end with somebody being stabbed in the back, or is simply handwaved away as "the Jews playing everyone", but I think that the solution can be found by simply following one question to its logical conclusion:
"What is the actual,
practical difference between the Government subsuming the Corporations and the Corporations subsuming the Government?"
For those of you who do not know how publicly-traded corporations work, here's a brief primer. The Company takes Labor from the Worker and uses it to make a Product. That Product is then sold to the Consumer for a Profit. That Profit is then used to pay the Worker for his Labor (along with other costs), some is put into the Company's bank account for a rainy day or future expansion, and the rest is split among the Shareholders. The only barrier to being a Shareholder is the buy-in cost, you can go out and buy a share of any one of them you please starting at 9AM EST today/tomorrow. You can do this even if you Work for the Company, and even then still purchase the Company's products. Thus, you end up in a situation where the Company takes Labor from (you) the Worker to create a Product which it sells to (you) the Consumer and shares the profits with (you) the Shareholder. Maybe you're starting to see where I'm going with this.
So, what does it mean to be a Shareholder? It is, in essence, citizenship in the Company. You are
invested in the well-being of the Company, you may
vote in matters of how the Company conducts itself, and you
reap the rewards of the Company's success. Granted, those among you who actually own stock might be saying "but I've only got one share, it doesn't even matter if I vote". This is because votes are weighted by the number of shares a Shareholder has: in quite literal terms, those with more shares are more
invested in the well-being of the Company, and so their voices are granted more import.
Now, let's take this to the national scale. As a citizen of the Nation of Company, you receive one share in the nation. You can acquire more shares by investing yourself more deeply in the well-being of the Company. For instance, soldiers don't get to go home after work, they are always on the watch, often living in shitty conditions, and--of course--are putting their lives on the line for the sake of the Company, ergo, they have a greater investment in the Company, and thus deserve a greater cut of the profits. It was a common saying in the USSR during the Second World War that the best reason to join the Red Army was "at least they have food". This carries all the way up to the top of the chain, the CEO, The Premier, Il Duche, or Der Fuhrer. He is the one charged with keeping the entire ship upright, even when he is "on vacation" he is still making the same life-or-death decisions, he's just staring at pretty scenery while he does it. And, of course, if the whole thing falls apart, his head will be the first on the chopping block. Truly, he is more invested in the fate of the Company than anyone else, and so he gets the biggest cut: the best food, the most expensive booze, the pretty villa on the seaside. You can even see this line of thinking evinced in certain forms of Holocaust apologism: "of course the Jews starved, there was a food crisis, and they needed to feed the soldiers and the workers". The Jews were not citizens, they had no stock in the Nation of Company, so why should they get any of the benefits of being Shareholders?
But how does this effect you, the Joe on the street who is just trying to make it through the day? You wake up and go to work at a Company-run business, where you Work to produce a good or service. You are paid in Company money, which can only be spent on goods and services produced by the Company. You buy Company bread with Company money for dinner, maybe you go out to the Company-run theater and watch a movie made by the Company extolling the virtues of being a patriotic and hardworking employee of the Company. You come home to find that the quarterly reports have come in, and the Board has elected that the dividends from this quarter's profits will be spent building a new park for the Shareholders to enjoy.
And the crazy thing? This
might actually be able to function if the nation actually managed to run itself like a business. Unfortunately for Socialists, they have a nasty habit of killing anyone who knows how to run a business and insist on operating their country like a fucking charity. Take, for instance, the classic Socialist measure of price controls. If the government and the economy are the same, then price controls are nothing short of the Company declaring that it will sell its own product at a loss. Do this across your entire economy, and you will bankrupt yourself in record time. Money starts piling up in peoples' bank accounts, shelves empty as demand outstrips supply, and the government must either confiscate the holdings of the Shareholders, or print more money, leading into the death spiral of hyperinflation.
What does Socialism look like? It looks like the Company Store.
